Radeon R9 295X2 and GeForce GTX 980 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 295X2 vs GeForce GTX 980
Radeon R9 295X2
8876
GeForce GTX 980
11457
Radeon R9 295X2
GeForce GTX 980
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Vesuvius
GM204
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2014
September 2014
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
-
500 Watt
Supplementary power connectors
2 x 8-pin
2x 6-pins
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
1018 MHz
1216 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1064 MHz
CUDA cores
-
2048
Floating-point performance
2x 5,733 gflops
4,981 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
5,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
500 Watt
165 Watt
Texture fill rate
179.2
144 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
7.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
640 GB/s
224 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Multi monitor support
-
4 displays
Eyefinity
1
-
VGA аnalog display support
-
+
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
-
+
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DisplayPort support
-
-
G-SYNC support
-
+
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
6.3
6.4
Vulkan
+
1.1.126
AppAcceleration
-
-
BatteryBoost
-
+
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
GameStream
-
+
GameWorks
-
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+
GPU Boost
-
2.0
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
-
+
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
Optimus
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
-
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-